No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

Oscar Wilde

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

Jimmy Carter

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

George Santayana

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

Monica Seles

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

William Shakespeare

I saw a close friend of mine the other day...He said, Stephen, why haven't you called me? I said, I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it. He said, How long have you had it? I said, I don't know...my calendar has no sevens on it.

Steven Wright

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Thom Yorke

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

Woodrow Wilson

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Florence King